{"id":2843,"date":"2026-05-01T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2843\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:38:07","slug":"live-afl-2026-adelaide-crows-vs-port-adelaide-power-showdown-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2843\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Adelaide Crows vs Port Adelaide Power, Showdown 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-form Adelaide hopes to flip its fortunes in a blockbuster Showdown 59 clash with raring Port Adelaide on Friday night. Live updates below!<\/p>\n<p>The Crows (3-4, 96.1%) go in having swung five changes including Jordan Dawson\u2019s exclusion for personal reasons, giving the Power (3-4, 112.5%) every chance of another Adelaide Oval scalp after creaming Geelong last Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Crows have won six of the past eight Showdowns, including both of last year\u2019s matchups \u2014 the first by five points, and the second by 98. <\/p>\n<p>However, their ball movement remains problematic eight weeks into the season. They sit third-last in the competition for both chain-to-score rate and defensive-50-to-forward-50 success. <\/p>\n<p>In particular, they\u2019re not utilising the high-handball game like flourishing ball movement sides like the league-leading Swans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a couple of clubs, Richmond and Adelaide, that I don\u2019t think have embraced this in any way, shape or form, and I think they\u2019ve been left for dead,\u201d two-time flag-winner David King told First Crack Preview on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just concerned that the Adelaide Crows haven\u2019t updated to the iPhone &#8211; they\u2019re still using the old Motorola, the flip-phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they need to get with modern footy, because the AFL average (handball metres gained) has jumped 30-40 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Match details: Adelaide vs. Port Adelaide from 8:10pm AEST at Adelaide Oval. <\/p>\n<p>Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 503), and streaming on Kayo, from 8:00pm AEST. <\/p>\n<p>Follow Crows vs. Power in our live blog below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out-of-form Adelaide hopes to flip its fortunes in a blockbuster Showdown 59 clash with raring Port Adelaide on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,404,23,133,3955,3953,3950,3951,3946,3949,368,3956,2602,564,3947,3954,3945,3948,3952,120,524,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-2843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-adelaide-crows","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-ball-movement","13":"tag-ball-movement-sides","14":"tag-chain-to-score-rate","15":"tag-david-king","16":"tag-flourishing-ball-movement","17":"tag-follow-crows","18":"tag-getty-images-inc","19":"tag-handball-metres","20":"tag-inc","21":"tag-jack-jovanovski","22":"tag-jake-soligo","23":"tag-jason-horne-francis","24":"tag-live-updates","25":"tag-match-details","26":"tag-motorola","27":"tag-oceania","28":"tag-port-adelaide","29":"tag-south-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}